The Range Rover Evoque Cabrio has returned to the Nürburgring for an intense testing session ahead of next year's launch.

The Range Rover Evoque Cabrio has returned to the Nürburgring
for an intense testing session ahead of next year's launch.

Land Rover will actually start
selling the
open-top
Evoque
next year and to make sure everything will be ready for launch
they have to make some fine-tuning. Seeing the crossover cabriolet being pushed
to its limits on the 'Ring takes time getting used to, but nowadays it seems
just about every type of vehicle sold in Europe has to perform testing rounds
on the Nordschleife before heading to dealerships.

Land Rover showed a
concept
of the Evoque Cabrio back in
2012 at the Geneva Motor Show and they will probably use the same venue to introduce the production car which is being billed as the "world's first premium compact SUV
convertible." It will look a lot like the three-door version but instead
of the fixed metal roof it will adopt an electrically retractable soft top
along with a redesigned rear end necessary to accommodate the roof when it's
folded.

It will use the same engines as the
facelifted Evoque
and will obviously command a serious premium over its metal-roofed brother.